Sunday, October 2, 2016

Yes, Trump's A Pig. And Yes, The Alicia Machado 'Miss Piggy' Story Is A Media Set-Up

In Monday night’s debate, Hillary Clinton seemed to pluck from thin air the story of Alicia Machado, one of Donald Trump’s old Miss Universes. She complained that “one of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name. Her name is Alicia Machado.”

So it appears Donald Trump, a mean and nasty and sexist man, said mean and nasty and sexist things.

Shocker.

But there were a few facts about Machado Clinton neglected to mention. First, in 1998, Machado faced accusations that she aided in an attempted murder, driving her boyfriend from a shooting. The judge in the case claimed Machado threatened to “ruin my career as a judge and…kill me.” McClatchy also reported last year that a secret witness “under federal protection…claimed she was involved with Gerardo Alvarez Vazquez, an accused kingpin known as ‘El Indio’…The witness asserted that Machado had borne Alvarez’s daughter, Dinorah, in 2008 and that several drug lords…came to the baptism.”